Artists

(1925-2009) An African-American artist known for his expressionistic paintings which dealt with his identity and Black history.

(1941-2024) John Fincher’s largest body of work can best be described as contemporary landscape painting. His handling of color and gesture leaned towards abstraction, as he vividly rendered and interpreted dynamic geography and forces of nature.

(1933-2004) A pioneer of robust, expressive ceramic figurative sculpture blending Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and California Funk.

Science-inspired drawings, paintings, photography, and sculpture exploring molecular structures, nature’s patterns, time, and social justice.

Pueblo potters since 1999, blend traditional Cochiti techniques with modern ceramic forms, with works in the National Museum of the American Indian and other major collections.

Marisol (1930–2016) occupies a singular position within the landscape of postwar American art, resisting easy alignment with any one movement while traversing the visual languages of Pop, Folk Art, and contemporary figuration. Emerging prominently in the early 1960s, she forged a distinctly personal vocabulary in the wake of the male-dominated ethos of Abstract Expressionism. Celebrated by Andy Warhol as the “first lady of Pop,” Marisol became renowned for her life-sized wooden figures—enigmatic sculptural assemblages whose mask-like faces, frequently cast from the artist’s own likeness, confront the viewer with both theatricality and introspection.

(1934–2021) A landscape painter whose oil paintings and monotypes blended abstraction with representation. His landscapes blended abstraction with representation, incorporating Japanese aesthetics from Asian influences.

A leading abstract painter linked to Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and Lyrical Abstraction, Natkin created lyrical, powerful canvases in the late 20th century.

Virgil Ortiz is an Indigenous artist whose work is rooted in traditional forms and media while radically redefining the possibilities of Native American art, using a visual vocabulary informed by contemporary culture and speculative futures to propel viewers toward new ways of imagining Indigenous identity, past, present and future.

An American post-minimalist artist known for small, subtle works using scale and line across sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, books, installation, and furniture.

A Navajo abstract painter/printmaker blending Indigenous symbols with landscapes. She works in mixed media (oil, chalk, pencils, graphite) on paper/canvas and etchings/monotypes.